Com-tutorised ... Saya during pilot run at a primary school
PUPILS are getting a unique lesson — from the world’s first ROBOT teacher.
The humanoid named Saya is multilingual, can do roll calls and set tasks from text books.
The humanoid named Saya is multilingual, can do roll calls and set tasks from text books.
Wired ... original Pikarin
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Behind her latex face — modelled on a university student — 18 motors create expressions including happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness and even anger.
Saya will start teaching after passing a trial term at a Tokyo primary.
Her creator, science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, had been working on the robot for 15 years.
The original, named Pikarin, had a metal head with exposed wires and levers.
ROBOTS could replace real army medics in ten years, developers in California revealed yesterday.
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